Lubricator



(No Model.)

E. CAPITAINE.

INVENTORZ .Il l WITH Y Y' 286% %AX` UNTTED STATES PATENT trice@ EMIL CAPITAINE, OE FRANKFORT-ON-TIIE-MAIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE T. HARRIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LUBRICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,033, dated une 8, 1897.

Application tiled November 7, 1896. Serial No. 611,325. (No model.)

To rml/ whom, tf/rY/Acolbccrlzf: elevation, Fig. el.) Fig. 2 is a plan View 0f Be it known that I, EMIL CAPITAINE, a citithe body A without the disk B. zen of the German Empire. residing at Erank- The pipe y is the inlet-pipe for oil. It leads fort-on-the-Wlain, Germany, have invented from the oil-reservoir, which may be fastened 5 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Auon the machine or on the wall of the room, tcmatic Lubricating Devices, ot which the fol wherever convenient; but it must be above lowing is a speeication. A, so that the oil liows to y lay-gravity; and My invention relates to mechanism for auit is not shown in the drawings. In A is an tomatically lubricating an engine or machine annular channel y', which has holes m, Fig. 6o ro having parts need-ing constant oil lubrication, 2, communicating with it.

and has for its object to provide a single and lL are outlet-pipes comm n nicating with the automatically-operating device which shall holes d and leading to the different bearings be efficient for the purpose and a substitute and working parts to be lubricated. for a series of otherwise necessary Oibe-ups. The channel in the rotating disk I3 has 65 x 5 To these ends my invention consists of the two holes 'i' '2 drilled into it, and the outer one combination of mechanism hereinafter deof these, t", is the same radial distance from scribed, and particularly mentioned in the the center as all the holes d in the body A, claims, having for its essential features a roand the inner hole 'i2 corresponds likewise in. tating toothed disk with actuating-gearing on radial distance to the holes a: in body A. 7o zo its periphery, means to rotate the same, a From this it will be seen that if the disk B is spring-controlled piston actuating a leverrotated the channel t' in sameleading to the arm, a frame or body on which the said parts piston D is alternately in communication with are mounted, provided with inlet and outlet the holes d and ai, and exactly so, and that passage-ways and orifices controlled by said when either of the outside row of holes are 75 25 rotating disk, and means to rotate thc said open to the channel i the inside holes are disk. closed, and vice versa.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating The operation is now as follows: The worm my invent-ion, Figure l is a vertical sectional C is turned in the direction shown bythe ar` view. Fig. 2 is a plan. view with the rotating row, causing the disk B to be very slowly ro- So disk and piston removed. Fig. 8 is a plan, tated. In so doing each tooth or projection partly broken, of the disk and lever; and Fig. b will pass successively under the lever E, a is a vertical section of part of same intended and each tooth will slowly lift the lever E as to show the toothed upper side of the disk it passes underit. T heleverElifts the thimand the arrangement of the lever relatively ble D', and with it the piston D, against the S5 thereto. spring E. The arrangement of the holes mis The device is provided with a body A, havtimed so that while the piston is being raised ing lugs A', by which it is secured to the base by the lever E the channel 'L' is in communior framework of the machine to be lubricated. cation with one of the holes m and channel B is a disk fitted over A. The edge of Bis y', and the space under the piston is being 9o 4o cut at B to form a worm-wheel around its iilled with oil as the disk is further rotated, periphery, and by means of the worin O the and while the lever E and piston D are being disk I3' can be rota-ted on the stationary body held up by the width of the tooth b the com- A, the power necessary being transmitted munication with channelf is closing to 'yand from any convenient rotating or reciprocating opening to a, and just at the time when one 9 5 45 part of the engine. of the holes u and 'Il' are in line the tooth has D is a piston which. is connected to the passed from under the leverE, and the latter thimble D by the pin O. is instantly forced down by the spring E, and

E is a lever or arm with a ulcrum at E. the oil is ejected through the channels 'i and On the upper side of B are eut teeth or prod, pipe Z, and into the particular bearing to Ico 5o jeetions l) somewhat resembling saw-teeth. be lubricated..

(Shown more clearly in plan, Eig. 3, and side Bearings of diilierent size and under difterent pressure need different quantities of oil, and it Will readily be seen that the height of the tooth b furnishes a ready means ot' regulating this supply.

It the piston D was moved downslowly for instance, by a crank, as in plunger-pumps, and not quickly, as in this case, by the force of the spring F-the small quantity of oil would escape by leakage. The suddenness of the downstroke of the piston D sends the oiiout with some force. This quickness of action permits of the piston D being iitted loosely7 and Without packings of any kind, yet it will always remain tight and effective. It will also be seen that the arrangement of the disk B with the body A and with the holes a and a; and the corresponding holes 'i' and i2 makes it possible to pump oil in many difierent directions and Without using valves or cheeks of any kind.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In an automatic lubricating device, the combination with a body or frame having inlet and outlet orifices and passages leading therefrom, of a rotating disk governing such orifices, and having a passage adapted to be brought into communication with either of the same alternately, and means to discharge the contained oil in the disk-passages, under pressure, when it shall be brought into register with the discharge orifice and passage in the body or frame; substantially as described.

2. In an automatic lubricating device, the combination with a body or frame havinginlet and discharge passages and orifices, of a rotating disk having a passage adapted to be brought into register with either of the same alternately, gearing upon the periphery or' the disk, means to actuate the same, a springcontrolled piston adapted to normally operate to exert a pressure upon the contained oii in the disk-passages and means between the disk and piston adapted to intermittently force back the piston against its spring, on the rotation of the disk; substantially as described.

3. In an automatic lubricating device, the combination with the bodyA having inlet and outlet openings, of a rotating disk having a passage adapted to register with either of lthe same alternately, means to rotate the disk, a suitably-mounted spring-control1e .1 piston, a lever adapted to raise the piston against the pressure of its actuating-spring, and a series cf tooth-like projections upon the upper side of the rotating disk adapted to raise the free end of the lever when brought into contact therewith on the rotation of the disk, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in the presence or two subscribing witnesses.

EMIL CAPITAINE.

Witnesses:

Visco V. ToRBENsEN, JEAN GRUND. 

